Rock Island Line

SHEET MUSIC
Johnny Cash – Brothers Four

Fun song as the tempo changes throughout.  This song's character is all about rhytmn.
It mimics a steam logocmotive starting out slow and picking up steam until it's flyin/ down the
 track.
 
Here are playing hints:
[Intro] thru [Chorus 1] - Very slow with big rhythm steady hammer on the sixth string [ 0h3 ]. 
Think of a
steam locomotive's heavy chugging as it pulls out of the station.
[Verse 1] - Pace begins to quicken to moderate but remains rhythmic chugging.
[Interlude 2] thru [Chorus 2] - Pace again quickens some but with less chugging and more 
rhytmic strumming.
[Interlude 3] - the pace again quickens, whith full chord hammer-ons with each "Wah" to sound 
like
the locomotive's chugging sound at high speed.
[Chorus 3 thru end] - Full pace.
 
 
[Intro]
G
There’s room for me, there’s room for you.
D                                  G
Plenty of room for the Rock Island crew.
 
 
[Interlude 1]
G  G  G  G
 
 
[Chorus 1]
G
Rock Island Line is a mighty good road,
G                       D
Rock Island Line is the road to ride.
G
Rock Island Line is a mighty good road,
       C       G
If you want to ride it gotta’,
C               G
Stride like you flyin’,
        C             G
Get you ticket at the station,
        D7          G
On the Rock Island Line.
 
 
[Verse 1]
G
Engine in front, caboose in the back,
D                             G
Goes so fast ‘most leaves the track.
 
 
[Interlude 2]

G  G  G  G
 
 
[Chorus 2]
G
Now the Rock Island Line it is a mighty good road,
G                          D
Rock Island Line it is the road to ride.
G
Rock Island Line it is a mighty good road,
           C       G
And if you want to ride it gotta’,
C               G
Stride like you flyin’,
        C             G
Get you ticket at the station,
        D7          G
On the Rock Island Line.
 
 
[Interlude 3]
G  G  G  G
 
 
[Verse 2]
A
This train goes flyin’ on by now this train.
                                 E7
This train goes flyin’ on by now this train.
A
This train goes flyin’ on by
    D                        D7
Now whistle and smoke gonna’ fill the sky, now.
A               E         E7     A
This train goes flyin’ on by now this train.
 
 
N.C.
Hear that train!
 
 
[Verse 3]
A
Wah     Wah     Wah-wha Wah-wha
A
Wha-wha Wha-wha Wha-wha Wha-wha
A
Wha…
 
 
[Chorus 3]
A
Now the Rock Island Line it is a mighty good road,
A                          E
Rock Island Line it is the road to ride.
A
Rock Island Line it is a mighty good road,
           D       A
And if you want to ride it gotta’,
D               A
Stride like you flyin’,
        D             A
Get you ticket at the station,
        E7          A
On the Rock Island Line.
 
 
[Outro]
        D             A
Get you ticket at the station,
        E7          A   A  A  A  A
On the Rock Island Line.
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